Do you know what do to when ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) shows up? Do you know that ICE cannot enter your house without a signed warrant? What community response networks to call? We want our communities to be informed and we want to show just how creative we are in doing that. That's why we're looking for submissions for our ICE-Free Zones Posters.

Why ICE-Free Zones? U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the branch of the federal government under the Department of Homeland Security that enforces immigration and customs laws. They investigate, detain, arrest, and deport people for violating immigration laws. ICE works with local police agencies, often waiting outside precincts, jails, juvies, and prisons to pick people up to deport them. This means that someone may serve a multi-year sentences in jail only to be picked up the day they get out by ICE and sent to an immigration detention center. They'll wait until their deportation cases come up, often taking months or years. ICE is responsible for raiding communities, targeting specific populations and going in over a weekend or a day and detaining large groups of people, tearing apart families and neighborhoods. In response to major ICE sweeps/raids earlier in 2016, we made flyers to spread information about what our rights are when dealing with ICE and police. We want our community to know their options, and we want ICE to know we are organized. That we will work together towards ending detention and deportation. That we will fight for our families to stay together and our neighbors not to be uprooted. For our communities to thrive together.

Why have a few editions of these posters when we could have hundreds? It takes a creative movements to end deportations and detention. Through movement art we honor, we question, we heal, we fight and resist, we get done up, and we tear down, we remember, we remind, we sing and we dance. We want to celebrate the creative imaginative brilliance our movements have. Will you join us in that by creating a poster with the words ICE-Free Zone? We will put up the submitted art work on our website available to download and use. We will also include a one page "Prepare for ICE: Rights & Beyond" in multiple languages that folks can print out separately, or print on the backside of posters.

Submission Guidelines:

-Submissions must include the words "ICE Free Zone". Imagery must be related and relevant to movements to end deportation/detention, broader social justice movements, intersectional collective liberation.-Submissions with content that supports racism, violence, or the erasure and cooption of other's struggles, etc. will not be accepted. -Submissions will be credited to the artists and put under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license. That means submissions will be available for sharing (copy and redistribute) and adapting (remixing -- adding words to an image to make an event flyer as an example). If using an image, you must cite the artist! Images are not for commercial use. Unfortunately, we are not paying artists for their work. We know there is so much unpaid & invisabilized labor in organizing and art and encourage folks to self assess if it makes sense to spend energy on this project, we support you either way. (Though we *really* hope you will!)-Artists impacted by immigration and incarceration systems are encouraged to submit. Currently or formerly detained, undocumented, POC, chronically ill and disabled, queer and trans, indigenous artists encouraged to submit. Please be thoughtful about your own experience/identity/relationship to state violence and immigration, be respectful with the content and process of your submission.

To Submit:

-We are accepting rolling submissions with frequent releases to our website. -Email resistenciasolidarity(at)gmail(dot)com using the subject title "Ice Free Zone Submission". In the body of email include name, submission title and description of your work. Attach images to email, at a 300 DPI. Optional: Social media handles/websites, anything about yourself that you want us to know. -You can also snail mail submissions to NWDC Resistance // P.O. Box 31202, Seattle, WA 98103.